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OpenAI: GPT-3.5 Turbo 16k API Pricing
OpenAI: GPT-3.5 Turbo 16k costs $3.00 per 1M input tokens and $4.00 per 1M output tokens. Context window: 16K. Prices verified 2026-08-23 Β· source
Input / 1M tokens
$3.00
Output / 1M tokens
$4.00
Context window
16K
Max output
4K
What would OpenAI: GPT-3.5 Turbo 16k cost you per month?
| Workload | Requests/mo | Avg tokens (in/out) | Est. monthly cost |
|---|---|---|---|
| Light chatbot | 10,000 | 800 / 400 | $40.00 |
| Coding agent | 5,000 | 8,000 / 2,000 | $160.00 |
| RAG pipeline | 30,000 | 4,000 / 500 | $420.00 |
| Doc summarizer | 2,000 | 20,000 / 1,000 | $128.00 |
Estimates use list prices without prompt caching. Caching can cut input cost by up to 90% on repeated context.
About OpenAI: GPT-3.5 Turbo 16k
This model offers four times the context length of gpt-3.5-turbo, allowing it to support approximately 20 pages of text in a single request at a higher cost. Training data: up...
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